Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922–45

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Who Became an Officer?

Chapter 3 ‘I was born into an Army family’: Irish Officers and the Family Tradition

Chapter 4 ‘A great training school for the army’: Irish Officers and the School Influence

Chapter 5 ‘We were an unwanted surplus’: Irish Medical Emigration and the British Forces

Chapter 6 ‘We were all Paddys’: the Irish Experience of the British Forces

Chapter 7 ‘The irreconcilable attitude is apparently confined to the purely political sphere’: Responses in Independent Ireland to an Irish Military Tradition